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« Reply #1410 on: 11:25:35, 01-12-2007 » |
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Curses! You beat me to it Ollie. What a gem!  |
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« Reply #1411 on: 21:11:59, 01-12-2007 » |
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tergid: stiff, resulting from the use of too much washing powder
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« Reply #1412 on: 19:50:05, 02-12-2007 » |
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That looks like a very nice, if understated example of the style I know as Pont Street Dutch (will give a reference if I have time to unpack the relevant bit of my library)
I have obviously been confusing, in what I jokingly refer to as "my mind", - Classic Pub
- Pont Street Dutch, and
- Edwardian Baroque
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From A Cartoon History of Architecture by Osbert Lancaster. A standard work of reference for someone who like myself, has an abysmal knowledge of architectural styles. |
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« Reply #1413 on: 21:39:41, 02-12-2007 » |
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tergid: stiff, resulting from the use of too much washing powder
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« Reply #1414 on: 19:27:25, 04-12-2007 » |
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Tippett Tips or Tipitina's ?
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« Reply #1415 on: 19:33:23, 04-12-2007 » |
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I think you'll find it goes like this:
Mairzy Doats And Dozy Doats and liddle lamzy divey A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you? Yes! Mairzy doats And Dozy Doats and liddle lamzy divey A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you? If the words sound queer, and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey, Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy" Oh! Mairzy Doats and Dozy Doats and liddle lamzy divey A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you - oo? A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
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« Reply #1416 on: 19:58:39, 04-12-2007 » |
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Lady Footling-Wainscote was of the opinion that the quite extraordinary outburst from the Rev Martlepoop was entirely due to the second glass of sherry that he had consumed before luncheon. However Esme Much-Doddery feared that she knew the truth. It had not escaped her attention that something curious had happened to the Reverend`s hairstyle and, now she thought about it, his complexion looked somehow, altered.
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« Reply #1417 on: 21:34:02, 04-12-2007 » |
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Lady Footling-Wainscote was of the opinion that the quite extraordinary outburst from the Rev Martlepoop was entirely due to the second glass of sherry. However Esme Much-Doddery feared that she knew the truth. It had not escaped her attention that something curious had happened to the Reverend`s hairstyle and, now she thought about it, his complexion looked somehow, altered.
'Indeed', murmured her other companion, Agatha Wainscote, sotto voce. 'It would appear that Rev Martlepoop has not only been drinking beetroot juice, using it as a hair gel and applying it to his skin, presumably mixed with oats he purloined from those dozey Mairz, in an effort to plump up his complexion in order to gain favour with young Miss Winefried Marchant'. 'The Hussy!' |
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« Reply #1418 on: 22:01:43, 04-12-2007 » |
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The Rev Martlepoop, having overheard these exchanges and stroking his handsome green foliage, smiled inwardly. 'How gullible they are!', he mused. 'And how increasingly ripe for my grand plan!' Somewhere, out of immediate earshot, a lone hart was heard to mule. And now for something completely different.  |
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« Reply #1419 on: 22:09:33, 04-12-2007 » |
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"Psst, psst, Emse!" whispered Agatha
"We done that joke before" sighed Esme, wearily
"No, No," said Agatha "The Rev Martlepoop said we are ripe (swoon) for his Grand Plan but then he posted an obscure link to Angelfire"
"Angelfire?, more like Angeldust or some other South Coast abomination!" shrieked Esme. "We must keep a keen eye on that Gentleman of the Cloth, and trying to tell us about little lambs and ivies, who does he think he is, Charles Kilvert?"
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« Reply #1420 on: 23:54:45, 04-12-2007 » |
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How could I have missed it? PEPSI is an anagram of PIPES!
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« Reply #1421 on: 03:32:17, 05-12-2007 » |
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Stop looking at my ... oh, okay. As you were.
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« Reply #1422 on: 19:55:14, 05-12-2007 » |
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Mairzy Doats And Dozy Doats and liddle lamzy divey A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you? Yes! Mairzy doats And Dozy Doats and liddle lamzy divey A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you? If the words sound queer, and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey, Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy" Oh! Mairzy Doats and Dozy Doats and liddle lamzy divey A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you - oo? A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #1423 on: 20:00:07, 05-12-2007 » |
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Mairzy Doats And Dozy Doats and liddle lamzy divey A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you? Yes! Mairzy doats And Dozy Doats and liddle lamzy divey A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you? If the words sound queer, and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey, Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy" Oh! Mairzy Doats and Dozy Doats and liddle lamzy divey A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you - oo? A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
Did a certain librettist write that for you, martle? Because it sounds like it! (sorry, on-topic here) No, but I know what you mean, tinners! It's actually the lyric of rather a popular World War II song. (They went in for nonsense escapism, obviously, back then.) My mum used to sing it whilst cooking. Not that the words reflected what she cooked, I hasten to add...  |
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« Reply #1424 on: 20:21:56, 05-12-2007 » |
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Here you are, tinners .....
"Mairzy Doats" is a novelty song composed in 1943 by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston. It was a popular wartime song.
The words seem to be meaningless:
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
Yes! Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldnt you?
but it "translates" as
"Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy."
My Mum used to sing this to amuse us when we were little.
Well that`s what Mr Goggle came up with anyway...... I couldn`t find a song sheet. There must be one somewhere
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